It was hard to think that maybe Scotia Simms could be redeemed, but this book did a pretty good job of it! First, as a 49 year old, it was kind of hard to read some of the bits about forty-something being old, because I don’t want to think of myself as that way. On the other hand it was a really nice story to read about someone my age as well. We learned a lot about Scotia’s life and what kind of made her the way she was. It was still hard to read when she did her usual catty and mean comments about other people. But I did like when she started stopping herself and realizing what she was doing.

Spending time with her sisters that we now know from the first two books featuring their stories was a lot of fun. Seeing them from her point of view, yet knowing how we felt when we read their stories from their points of view was really interesting. That’s one thing I’m loving about the authors in this series that do family members in the subsequent books. I was a little disappointed that Chet didn’t involve Cletus in his information finding mission, but oh well, he still found out what he needed.

In the end Scotia did redeem herself, or if not redeem, she did become a better person and it gave me more empathy for her and what she’d dealt with in her life. There were also some little peeks at characters that we’d had mentioned in Penny Reid’s Green Valley books. And all of that made for such a perfectly “dill-ightful” read. See what I did there? I loved the pickle puns and all the pickle stuff that Scotia sold. I do love fried pickles. Also, I think we need some of the stuff she was selling to buy as stickers or t-shirts, etc. I’d buy it!

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.